A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
"In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither was the time right when, in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking wrote ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a ...Show more
Evolution in the Antipodes: Charles Darwin and Australia by Tom Frame
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Charles Darwin’s profound influence on Australian thinking is explored from a variety of positions in this carefully researched analysis. Providing useful contextual material on Darwin’s life and times, including his 1836 visit to Australia in the HMS Beagle, the narrative examines historic disputes and ...Show more
The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth by John Gribbin
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
There are several hundred billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, yet out of all of these Earth is the only planet with intelligent life on it. Why? In "The Reason Why" John Gribbin shows just what it is that makes our planet so special. For the first time, he makes the link between the whole series of c ...Show more
The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Ever wondered what the end of the universe might actually look like? Why the number 42 is so significant? Or whether time travel really would put a stop to history as we know it? If so you are clearly a fan of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, releasing as a major motion picture in t ...Show more
Genome Generation by Elizabeth Finkel
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
The year 2001 saw the completion of the human genome project, the culmination of a 14-year, $3 billion, international race to read every letter of the code that makes up a human being. Reading this code was the most profound revelation in the history of humankind, and it was thought that the secrets of ...Show more
Species In Denial by Jeremy Griffith
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
A Species In Denial is the revolutionary bestseller by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith. In it the author addresses the crux issue before us as a species of the human condition, our capacity for good and evil, describing how humans have coped with the dilemma of the human condition by living in deni ...Show more
Among the Islands : Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, credited with discovering more species than Darwin. In Among the Islands Flannery recounts a series of expeditions he made at the dawn of his career to the strange tropical islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly 4,000 m ...Show more
Here on Earth : An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: vert good
"We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds - a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are master ...Show more
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date--a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe? There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoverie ...Show more
The Origin of Species: and The Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin; Ruth Padel (Introduction by)
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a proc ...Show more